grievous
Example Sentences
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That gives the impression that the powers-that-be properly acknowledged and put right a grievous wrong.
Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.
From Salon
Online retail's gain would have been English rugby's grievous loss.
From BBC
He talked about the prisoners of war who endured horrific conditions in Japanese captivity - and all the "grievous hardships" faced by innocent civilians of occupied territories.
From BBC
It was a grievous historical error to assume that the gains made through passionate and painful struggle by racial justice movements, feminism, LGBTQ+ Pride and so on were natural, inevitable and irreversible.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
